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...magazine ranked GSE slightly higher than Stanford's School of Education, though the latter tends to attract applicants with higher entrance examination scores and has a better faculty-to-student ratio...
...while the new African churches may attract growing numbers of followers, mainstream churches question the depth of faith in the converted, as well as the commitment of the new churches to their flock. Like the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments sect, many of the new churches are built around charismatic and exploitative leaders and often fade once those leaders leave...
...paramilitary groups that originated in the north of the country. The paramilitaries, ironically, were originally organized by narco-traffickers incensed by kidnappings and land invasions orchestrated by the guerrillas. But they've grown, both because of active support from within the Colombian military and because they've managed to attract a large number of peasants fed up with bearing the "tax" burden placed on them by guerrillas claiming to fight on their behalf...
...World and the MTV boy-band parody movie that made fun of them. It takes so little to set them off that even talking about singing makes them sing. "We only sing in times of trouble," says Chris Kirkpatrick, before belting out a Let It Be that doesn't attract the attention of anyone in the pricey hotel restaurant. That's because the members of 'N Sync--whose first CD sold 7.8 million copies--are anonymous to the adult diners. The adults no doubt assume that the five bald black bodyguards dressed in identical outfits of blue jeans and denim...
...department decided to "attract Marcus away from Stanford last summer," Nelson said. Marcus had been an assistant professor of physics there...